Getting Close to Hair Jig Time........

[Mitch f]

This is what I enjoy doing, sitting in front of the fireplace, or in the Man Cave in the basement.... I love experimenting. I hope you guys will post some of your favorite hair jig patterns. 

[MOsmallies]

Here's some Arctic Fox hair jigs I tied last winter... These were my first attempts and they caught a few fish. I have some ideas to try this year and will post them once I tie them...

I need to stock up on football jigheads (hint hint)

[mic]

Awesome looking.

[Smalliebigs]

I really only know my own version of a afro engineered rabbit jig but, they work for me. I just had some Raccoon and fox shipped so its time to go to work.

 

    here are the Gaper jigs in Olive/green pumpkin on an 1/8ounce football.....they seem to work for me.....I'm itching to try the coon and fox

[Smalls21]

all of those are really good looking jigs!!!! a lot better than my homeade jigs

[Al Agnew]

 

These are mostly cross cut rabbit fur, and just about all the color combos I use.  Note the two at top right have two versions of the plastic trailers I cut out of Brush Hogs, the two to the left of them have red squirrel tails for fishing in trout water where you can't use plastic.  The one on bottom right shows how I re-bend the hook so that the plastic trailer will come straight off the shaft of the hook when it's "nose-hooked".

[jfrith]

How are you all fishing these? Slow skip along the bottom?

[Mitch f]

19 minutes ago, jfrith said:

How are you all fishing these? Slow skip along the bottom?

Don't know about the other guys, but I try to keep the bait on the bottom and not move it more than one foot at a time, which takes some practice. Because most people move it 2-3 feet without even knowing it.

[Al Agnew]

In cold winter water, it's usually more a drag than a skip.  Drag it along the bottom, keeping it right on the bottom as much as possible.  Once in a while I'll give the rod tip a quicker twitch so that it moves more quickly a few inches.  When it gets a bit hung on a rock, don't pull harder, just jiggle it and try to make it BARELY come off the rock.  I find it hard to have the patience, but lots of times just letting it sit for as long as you can stand it works.

[Dutch]

Unlike some of you I use them all year long.  I almost always swim them.  Seldom do they ever touch the bottom.